Hyderabad: Vice President of India Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu on Friday highlighted the need for research to predict zoonotic diseases better. The VP urged the researchers and zoos to utilize their resources and expertise optimally to predict emerging infectious diseases from animals to humans.

The Vice President interacted with the wildlife scientists and saw the main facilities for wildlife conservation at LaCONES.This included the National Wildlife Genetic Resource Bank and the Assisted Reproduction Lab. He visited Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES) at CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad on Friday. He also released a book on 'Introduction to Genetic Resource Banks for Wildlife Conservation' authored by LaCONES and Central Zoo Authority.

Venkaiah Naidu highlighted on the importance of studying wildlife for conserving endangered species and to also understand and predict zoonotic diseases better. "Research institutes such as LaCONES-CCMB and zoos have to work together. Zoos across the country can avail the different modern biology tools for studying diseases in wildlife, preserve their genetic material, avail assisted reproductive technologies. They should also be a partner in research to understand reproductive anatomy and physiology in wildlife," he said.

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